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Self-made mogul Oprah Winfrey covered up in a luxurious striped cashmere blanket as she checked out of Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown on Thursday after enjoying her first trip to Manhattan in three years.The Mississippi-born billionaire - turning 69 on January 29 - was also wearing a grey cashmere knit turtleneck, matching pants, and boots.Oprah - who underwent double-knee replacement surgery in 2021 - wore circular glasses over her made up complexion and styled her raven locks into a perky ponytail for her travels. Bye, Big Apple! Self-made mogul Oprah Winfrey covered up in a luxurious striped cashmere blanket as she checked out of Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown on Thursday after enjoying her first trip to Manhattan in three yearsOn Wednesday night, Winfrey reunited with her BFF of 47 years - CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King - to see the Broadway revival of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Piano Lesson at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.Backstage, the OWN CEO gushed to director LaTanya Richardson Jackson the drama was 'incredible, stellar' and the 68-year-old journalist praised the cast and said it was 'worth staying up late on a school night' - according to Oprah Daily.Oprah and Gayle - who posed with Samuel L.

On my way down to Tribeca to meet actor John David Washington for lunch, I had a lot of questions swirling in my head that made me nervous about our encounter. I am meeting a man who comes from a Hollywood dynasty of sorts. Washington has had so many experiences, what questions could I possibly ask that would make our conversation relatable and engaging. John David is the oldest of four children and his parents are two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington and actress/singer Pauletta Washington. 

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Covid isn’t done with New York’s theater scene just yet. At least four Broadway and major Off Broadway productions have either canceled or postponed performances or temporarily replaced principal cast members in the last week due to the virus.

Broadway box office held steady at $28,621,480 last week as a slate of new productions began or continued previews (Almost Famous and Kimberly Akimbo filled more than 90% of their seats), MJ and Leopoldstadt set house records and The Phantom of the Opera was once again standing room only as the long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber musical heads toward its Feb. 18 closing.

Magic Johnson managed to avoid the curse of uncomfortable Broadway theater seats at last week's opening night performance of August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson.The 63-year-old Lakers legend had the seat in front of him at the play removed when he attended on Thursday with his wife Cookie Johnson, 63, and son EJ Johnson, 30, sources told Page Six on Monday.According to the sources, Magic didn't request the accommodation, but 'thoughtful' producers who knew he was likely to attend had the set disassembled in advance. Leg room: Magic Johnson, 63, got a surprise treat when producers removed the seat in front of the 6ft9in former athlete at Thursday's opening night of The Piano Lesson on Broadway, sources told Page Six; seen with wife Cookie and son EJThe producers were also cognizant of the fact that Johnson was jetting into New York City between playoff games featuring the LA Dodgers — of whom he is a part owner — and the San Diego Padres.A source said the producers went the extra mile '[Since he was] a special guest and all, and since he made the day trip between Dodgers playoff games.' The current production of The Piano Lesson stars Samuel L.

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Danielle Brooks celebrated the opening night of her Broadway show The Piano Lesson just days ago and she sadly has to take a break from performing as she just tested positive for COVID-19.

Michael Appler When Tony and Emmy-nominee Danielle Brooks was 17 years old, at home in Greenville, S.C., she picked up a copy of August Wilson’s “Century Cycle,” a canon of 10 plays spanning the 20th century which chronicled African American life in its most vivid, lyrical and intimate settings yet written for the stage. Sifting through the collection, she picked out “The Piano Lesson” and read it, thumbing across the names of African American actors and actresses whom she didn’t yet know. “Today is about preservation,” she told Variety on Thursday at the opening night of the first Broadway revival of “The Piano Lesson,” in which Brooks stars as Berniece alongside Samuel L. Jackson and John David Washington.

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opened Thursday night on Broadway, is mostly in tune.  The August Wilson play’s greatest asset is its young leads John David Washington and Danielle Brooks, both of whom are already widely admired, but display an altogether new and enticing range of skills. 2 hours and 45 minutes, with one intermission. At the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 243 W.

There’s abundant magic still in The Piano Lesson, August Wilson’s grand, 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning tale of a Black family torn between legacy and ambition, the past and the future, and, it’s not an overstatement to note, between life and death.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Samuel L. Jackson had his marching orders. So when actor John David Washington approached him for tips about playing Boy Willie, a role Jackson originated in the 1987 production of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson,” he clammed up. “I was specifically told by the director not to give him advice,” Jackson says. “John David asked several times, but when he realized that I was not allowed to help him, he stopped asking.” The director, in this case, is LaTanya Richardson Jackson, who also happens to be Jackson’s wife, as well as the first woman to oversee a production of Wilson’s work on Broadway. The two are teaming up on the hotly anticipated revival of the classic drama, only this time Sam is playing Boy Willie’s uncle, Doaker Charles. It marks his first time on Broadway since 2011’s “The Mountaintop,” in which he played Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and LaTanya’s  first time directing after a run of acclaimed stage performances, including the 2014 revival of “A Raisin in the Sun” and 2018’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman have had a Pulp Fiction reunion backstage on Broadway.The actors, who played Jules Winnfield and Mia Wallace respectively in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film alongside John Travolta, met up last Saturday (October 1) at the Broadway revival of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson.The play is currently being performed in previews at the Barrymore Theatre in New York.

The Piano Lesson led the pack of Broadway’s recent arrivals at the box office last week, with the August Wilson revival starring Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington and Danielle Brooks grossing $795,306 for its first seven performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

The cast of The Piano Lesson are hyping up their upcoming play!

The royally enjoyable cast of Signature Theatre’s The Color Purple (★★★★★) forges a chain of love with no weak links in Timothy Douglas’ knockout staging of the musical based on Alice Walker’s novel and the acclaimed 1985 motion picture.The show marks a milestone for Signature, which, according to artistic director Matthew Gardiner, had developed plans a decade ago for a take on the musical, fresh off a two-year Broadway run of the original Tony-winning production.But those plans were scuttled due to John Doyle’s 2015 Broadway revival starring powerhouses Cynthia Erivo, Jennifer Hudson, and Danielle Brooks.Eventually that production made its way to D.C. in the modified form of a Broadway touring company which, frankly, left a lot of the meat of this turbulent, decades-spanning drama still on the bone.

about the intense pressure to be thin in Hollywood, recently that she was body-shamed on the set of Coyote Ugly, even as she was already severely restricting her food intake. And in a new interview, she's reflected on the toll society's thin-obsession took on a friend: the late Brittany Murphy.Though denied rumors of an eating disorder, she lost a significant amount of weight as she transitioned from teen actor to adult movie star, and became profoundly thin and frail toward the as her health declined.

Gallery: 'My babies were huge. So, it was kind of not that comfortable. . . ' These stars HATED being pregnant! (BANG Showbiz)Danielle Brooks added: "Welcome to the club mama!!!" Gina previously admitted that she was desperate to become a mother but joked that she didn't want to go through being pregnant.

return to Broadway for the first time in over a decade this fall, starring alongside Danielle Brooks and John David Washington in a revival of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Piano Lesson. The show also marks the Broadway debut of director LaTanya Richardson Jackson, who will not only have the rare opportunity to direct her husband’s big return in the first revival of the show in three decades but will break ground as the first woman to ever direct an August Wilson play on Broadway.The show is a particularly special return for Jackson, who starred in the play’s 1987 debut as Boy Willie at age 39.

EXCLUSIVE: The Piano Lesson has a new Broadway home: The much anticipated production, which begins performances this fall and will star Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington and Danielle Brooks under the direction of LaTanya Richardson Jackson, will play at the the Ethel Barrymore Theatre rather than the previously announced St. James Theatre.